Wednesday, August 26, 2009

ASP.NET GridView Confirm Delete Button Field

Here is a quick and easy reusable "ConfirmButtonField" for use on an ASP.NET GridView

Just simply derive from ButtonField and override a couple things:
using System;
using System.Collections.Generic;
using System.Linq;
using System.Text;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
namespace CreateSoftwareUtils.Web.GridViewControls
{
    public class ConfirmButtonField : ButtonField
    {
        public override void InitializeCell(DataControlFieldCell cell, DataControlCellType cellType, DataControlRowState rowState, int rowIndex)
        {
            base.InitializeCell(cell, cellType, rowState, rowIndex);
            if(cellType == DataControlCellType.DataCell)
            {
                cell.Attributes.Add("onclick","return confirm(\"Are you sure?\");");
            }
        }
    }
}
Then on the ASPX page you can do this:
<asp:GridViewID="gvEquipment"runat="server"AutoGenerateColumns="false"DataKeyNames="ProductId">
    <Columns>                                                                 
        <cs:ConfirmButtonField ButtonType="Link"Text="Delete"CommandName="Delete"/>
        <asp:ButtonField ButtonType="Link"Text="View/Edit"CommandName="Select"/>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="Name"HeaderText="Title"HeaderStyle-Width="300px"ItemStyle-Width="300px"ItemStyle-Wrap="true"/>
        <asp:BoundField DataField="PriceDaily"HeaderText="Daily Rate"DataFormatString="{0:c}"HeaderStyle-Width="80px"/>
    </Columns>
</asp:GridView>
I also like to register controls I am going to use all over the site in the Web.Config like this:

<add tagPrefix="cs"namespace="CreateSoftwareUtils.Web.GridViewControls"assembly="CreateSoftwareUtils"/>

3 comments:

Unknown said...

I don't see how this is implemented in a page.

I can't get it to work as a user control, and can't register a regular class as a user control.

Could you expand? Thanks.

Unknown said...

OK, I figured that out: the .cs file had to be in App_Code, and only 'tagPrefix' and 'namespace' attributes should be used in web.config.

But the return value of the script is not passed to the page, so the delete cannot be cancelled.

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